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If youprintfromtheDOScommandlevelveryoften,itwillbe advantageous
to cn?atea printersetupfde. Theninsteadof settingfontetc.manuallyeach
time, you can complete the setup with a single command from your
computer.For example,you can createa file containingprintercommands
to selectnear letter quality,and selectelite pitch with the Standardmode.
You can find the commandsin Chapter4. We suggestthe following:
ANear letter quality
<ESC>
"X"
"l"
Elite pitch
<ESC>
"!"
<1>
<ESC>"!" <1> is a powerfulcommandthat, in additionto selectingelite
pitch, cancelsunwantedfeatures such as underliningwhich might be left
from previous commands.The angle brackets around the <1> indicate
charactercode 1, whichis a ccmtmlcode,not the printabledigit"l".
You may want to place additionalcommandsin this ffle, such as left and
rightmargins,linespacingandbottommargincommands.Oryoumaywant
to c~ate a variety of setupfdes with a differentset of commandsin each.
To avoidexcessline feeds,you shouldplacethe commandson one line in
thesetupfile.Youmayor maynotbe ableto generatea setupfde withword-
processingsoftware;it dependson whether your softwarelets you enter
controlcodes.If yoursystemincludesthe file EDLIN.COM,however,you
can easilycreate a setup file with the DOS line editor.
An appropriatenamefor this setupfile wouldbe NLQELITE.DAT. T o use
theDOSlineeditor,typethecommandEDLINNLQELITE.DAT, t hentype
the underlinedparts of the followingdisplay.Press RETURNat the end of
eachline.Don'ttypethe symbol"A". T his symbolmeansto holdthe CTRL
keydownwhilepressingthenextkey:forexample,'V meansto typeCTRL-
V.
AC mem5
to type CTRL-C,
which
indicatesthe end of the input.
A >~DLIN
NLQELITE
DAT
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New
f
i 1e
*2.
AVindicatesthat the followingcharacteris a controlcode. 'V[ enters We
<ESC>code. cESG has charactercode 27, and "[" is the 27th character
fromA in ASCIIsequence.Similarly,'VA entemthe controlcode<1>.See
your DOS manualif you need furtherinformationaboutEDLIN.
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